In early December we’re moving into Kingly Court, a little shopping arcade that leads off Carnaby Street. We’ll be selling originals and prints from our international network of artists. We’ll also be using the gallery as a base from which to to co-ordinate a series of pop up shows in vacant shops throughout the Soho area.

We’re moving next door to Material, the bookshop / gallery where Ashes 57 had her show a few weeks ago. We’re looking forward to being their neighbour, they’ve got some lovely books and with links to Le Gun they have some cool art of their own.

We’re really excited to have a full-time gallery space of our own. (I use the term ‘full-time’ advisedly; the terms of the lease require us to be there bright and early 7 days a week!) It allows us to showcase our artists on an ongoing basis, as opposed to the flash-in-the-pan nature of pop up events. We love doing pop ups and we will continue to do them, but having a permanent base is a big development for us.

If all goes well, we’ll open our doors for the first time on Saturday 4th December. We’ll be starting off with a LAVA group show, featuring exclusive artwork from Ashes 57, Bruno 9li, Jo Peel and Stik. We’ll be throwing an official opening party later in December – keep an eye out for that.

LAVA Gallery, 1.11 Kingly Court, Carnaby Street, London, W1B 5PW Open Daily, 10am-6pm. Sunday: 12pm-6pm

Keep an eye out for the next issue of Rooms Magazine – It has a piece on LAVA Collective and an interview with Talita Hoffmann. We were also involved with the Rooms Magazine Launch Party, where Jo Peel represented LAVA at the live paint event.

Rooms is a really cool little magazine, available in many shops and bars around the East End and beyond. Their first issue contained some striking artwork by Aya Kakeda, and I loved the section on Lewis Cambell, an artist I had never encountered before. There is also a double page spread from our very own Ashes 57, plus plenty more besides.

It has been fun collaborating with Rooms on the forthcoming issue. We are like-minded organisations with a lot in common and we hope to do another project with them before too long.